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BEST WORST vintage lenses. My Top 5 picks! What are
BEST WORST vintage lenses. My Top 5 picks! What are yours?
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“Simon’s utak”
In this video I nominate my Top 5 Best Worst lenses. Lenses that are poor performers (for various reasons), but actually produce beautiful and sometimes crazy images, full of character.
Please comment below with your picks too!
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my favorite is a 'C' mount tiny video lens 35mm f/1.4 made in China used on m4/3 Olympus. (all of $15 with adapter).
Excellent video 😊!
My best/worst lens is a 28-200mm f/3.8 to f/5.6 Tamron zoom lens.
It is worst because:
1. Its maximum apertures are too slow.
2. It is a variable aperture lens and I hate variable aperture zoom lenses.
It is the best because:
1. For some reason, my clients like the portraits this lens produces.
2. It serves as an expendable backup lens for my more expensive 28, 35, 50, 85, 105, 135, and 180mm prime lenses.
3. It was a gift from a colleague who was switching from film to digital.
It's not a vintage lens but my Fotasy manual 35mm f1.6 was only $35. I bought it for M4/3 but later moved to Fujifilm. I recently painstakingly adapted it to Fuji's FX mount and then accidentally reversed the rear element. It was already quite a terrible lens with nasty flares and yet it can produce perfect bubble bokeh and cool effects, especially with the rear element reversed.
Great channel Love it Great pics on flickr!
Two lenses I really enjoy using on my Fuji XH1- Canon Serena f1.9 (1949) love this lens using B&W and Leica 90mm f4 dated 1935 bokeh is great & lens is sharp throughout.
I think my favorite "best worst vintage lens" is my Porst 135mm f/1.8 ! Full of chromatic aberrations, coma, fringing and ghosting… But there is sharpness and the background separation is crazy !
ive built my own "vintage lens" out of an old Leitz projector glass and some metal printed mounts 🙂 looks absolutely crazy
I really enjoy watching your videos Simon! I am getting into vintage lenses and I have a number of Takumar lenses (Super Multi-Coated 35 f2/Super Takumar 55 f1.8/Super Multi-Coated 135 f3.5) right now, with a Helios 44M-5 and a Super Takumar 85 1.9 coming in soon. Each of these lenses are in pristine condition and work so smoothly for photography and videography on my Fuji X-S10 and XT3. Your photography is outstanding, and I really like the way you highlight each lens in all of the videos I have seen of yours so far. I can only imagine the work that goes into each one! Thanks for sharing these videos! They inspire me more and more to get more vintage lenses! LOL! Take care, and hi from British Columbia, Canada!
Charming and interesting. Sorry, no best worst. So I’ll just list a few memories:
wwii rolleiflex: (80mm?). 100% pics by my father of me and my cousins. In 1940s. Uniformly good.
Asahi Takumar 50mm f2 screw mount on Honeywell Pentax. Use with Kodachrome 25 it was so sharp you had to use a welders face max to protect your eyes when looking at slides. Simply the sharpest lens of my memories
Pentax 67 105mm f2.4. Just brilliant wonderful lens.
Schneider Super Symmar XL 110mm used with medium format Arca Swiss and Fuji Velvia 50. Simply the sharpest most wonderful view camera lens of my experience. No longer made. Broke my heart to sell it.
Fuji GF 110mm on GFX. A magical lens. Suddenly after all these years of bad photography, it turns you into Richard Avedon. The tonal transitions breathe life into the images. Worth selling your first born to obtain this lens.
Lastly for weight to quality ratio, Yashica 124G using chrome or bw film. The 80mm f3.5 is all you need. Superb and you can make poster size images. Almost as good as Pentax 105mm f2.4
Sorry this trip down memory lane is so long. Only excuse is that you asked for comments.
I'm glad the Pentax 17:4 made your list. I have the K mount version and enjoy it greatly!
One of my best worst lenses is a Beseler Series iii opaque projector lens. It's a gigantic 14" F3.5 Cooke triplet. Lots of field curvature wide open, but produces very dreamy photos on 8×10. I estimate it may even cover 16×20, but have yet to build a 16×20 camera to test that…
Canon fd 50mm 1.8 is #1 in my experience
Helios 44-2 is meh compared to the incredible magnificent Super-Takumar 50mm1.4 (8 element version). Even shooting at f2 the Super-Takumar bokeh is far creamier and more blurry than the Helios.
Helios 40 (85mmf1.5) is nuts. You can blur the world into oblivion with that lens when shot wide open. It's nuts. Mind you it also weighs like 900lbs so is not for everyone.
And I've tried a lot of different Helios glass and Takumar glass on my Fujis but nothing beats the Fuji 35mmf1.4 for clarity, contrast, beautiful bokeh and the Black and white rendering is sensational. It's a lens some people actually don't like cause the AF sucks, but when shot manual it's a dream. Maybe the best bad lens I've ever used.
Hello from France, one of my favorite lens is Volna-9 50mm macro, love it its on my TOP FIVE 😉 for me
Go for Pentax
@bloomingpics
3:26 , you are missing the Red Dot sight!!
Auto Image 28mm f2.8, a sharp lens, with bold color renditions, which under stayed lighting conditions will render adjacent colors with some special magic
Ty😀
Old NIKKOR 43-86 f3.5 is a wonderful lensflare beast! I have 2 of them!😅❤
I love my KMZ Helios 44M. I’m actually almost disappointed it gives me such clean images and especially video. I almost want even more character wide open, but I’m mostly filming myself make pottery indoors for my Instagram. I really am shocked at the beautiful, sharp quality of video I get when I get my focus dialed in, and I almost exclusively film wide open.
'Best worst lens', normally I would refer to those as 'character lenses' i.e. the flaws add character